In the footsteps of Matteo Ricci enthusiasts, Italian Jesuit seventeenth century.

With this great book of history of Chinese Ming period, which easily and pleasantly bed, Michela Fontana's still pride to the Society of Jesus.
It was often the impression over the lines without European science which served to present to Christianity, there would be no been any "scientific hello" within the Empire of the Middle, while China seventeenth century was very far from being ignorant in science
Also without Ricci Greek world and all ancient philosophy, particularly Stoicism would have continued so-called BE ignored that one could also sétonner when you know the richness conveyed via the Silk Road since already at that time, several hundreds of years
The book remains a beautiful and exciting hagiography of a great intellectual and all first Western Sinologists in missionary work, however revealing the failure dune counted at Jesuit death hundreds of converts (in thirty of years ...) in a population of between one hundred and dhabitants hundred fifty million at the beginning of the century.
It is true that the administration Roman Catholic whose arrogance at that time to hold the truth, certainly not sattendait to meet a dune so powerful philosophical system.